Getty Images In Nepal, people's sense of time is different to the rest of the world (Credit: Getty Images) History may well run in circles. As with the World Calendar movement of the late 19th ...

Happy Lunar New Year! According to the Chinese lunisolar calendar, the new year began Saturday. For many, like our host Regina G. Barber, this... The science and shared history behind the ...

In China, which has a 3,500-year (and counting) history of celebrating the new ... sought to resolve confusion over different calendars’ recognitions of significant dates in the religion by ...

The shared date is relatively rare due to the different calendars used by Western and Eastern churches to determine the first day of spring. Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew have ...

But for the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches, the moveable date has an extra complication: different calendars ... But enough history. Here’s a look at how Easter was celebrated ...

While tradition dictates that you should start an Advent Calendar on Dec. 1 and continue ... Since Dec. 25 falls on a different day of the week every year, the dates of Advent can also shift.